As The Settlers reminds us, films have often played a crucial role in helping establish and disseminate colonial mythologies.
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In The Zone of Interest, Martin Amis represents our familiar world from a radically unfamiliar angle.
In recent years, TV shows have started to explicitly state a character’s sexuality. But bisexual characters rarely have such moments in film.
Mahler’s inventive modernism and highly expressive writing communicated emotions shaped by his fascinating late-19th century life.
There is a stark contrast in box office figures between musical films that market themselves as ‘musicals’ and those that don’t.
A harrowing portrayal of banal evil, a nuanced look at black fiction, a historically accurate TV series, a story about the power of love and a seriously cute exhibition.
I come from a Dalit background and I research Dalit representation in film. So I know first hand Origin’s importance to Dalit people.
How did a musician whose songs were suffused with messages of anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism become so commercialized?
Though 2024 once again proffers a mind-numbing number of sequels, thankfully there seem to be fewer superhero films than usual on the cards.
The film depicts the everyday life of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his family – yet, industrialised, genocidal violence moves along, continuously, in the background.
This powerful new eco drama suggests “cli-fi” could play a crucial role in climate communication.
A tension between cult, critical and popular appeal is part of Norman Jewison’s most prominent legacy.
‘Past Lives’ is a beautiful story of childhood crushes, and the sorrow and agony that ensues when one party sends another party away to move to another stage of his or her life.
Jewison had a trailblazing commitment to the development of film in Canada, seen both in his founding of the Canadian Film Centre and when he visited us at the Windsor International Film Festival.
The problem with the Mean Girls musical film is that it is a pastiche of a pastiche.
Saltburn’s soundtrack showcases an infectious iPod-shuffle of pot-luck noughties pop.
Mae D Huettig, Romana Javitz and Shirley Graham DuBois were instrumental in their respective media fields but very few of us will be aware of their individual contributions.
Poor Things accurately depicts girls’ early sexual feelings and shows us some more positive ways of understanding girlhood sexual desire.
A film adapted from a radical piece of Scottish Literature, powerful dramatisations of abuse and miscarriages of justice and a game show about deception
Having used the method style successfully for more than 15 years, I believe there is a way to make it work for women.
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Associate Professor, Film Studies, University of Sydney
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Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University
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Professor of Film Studies
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Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, Adelaide University
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Lecturer, Department of Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick
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Professor & Dean, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University
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Professor of Cinema, RMIT University
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Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex
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Professor in Digital Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Film, University of Roehampton
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Lecturer in Creative Production and Performance, Western Sydney University
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Researcher and Sessional Tutor in Screen and Cultural Studies; Secretary for the Melbourne Cinematheque, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Film and Television, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Senior Lecturer, Media Studies and Production, University of Southern Queensland